Ninjago The Next Generation

Chapter 8

Ray 

"Idiots, I swear." Ray mumbled as her and Axel dashed to where Maya, Kirby, and the newly freed prisoners were. They were surrounded by multiple stone warriors. "Maya, can you electrocute them or something? We need to find the others." Maya nodded and shot lightning at all 8 of the stone warriors, knocking them out instantly. They all made their way to the middle of the base, soon interrupting a conversation that was going on.

"Jade, this is Akita.Your mother." Ray gasped in shock. Jade had finally found her mom! "After I had you my brother pulled me into the wild. I couldn't stay with you, I wished that I could." she bent down to meet Jade's gaze, "You have grown so much."

"Woah! Greenie we need to have a talk." Kai looked to Lloyd, "You never told us that Jade's mother was Akita!" He pointed out. "This isn't the time for a talk Kai!" Lloyd shoved his way to Akita, " Akita what are you doing here?" He asked.

"I don't have much time," She started, "But I came to warn you what we found. My brother and I were snooping around when we found one of the captives, his name was Cyrus Borg I believe. He said that the Overlord was looking for this power, it will give him a mortal body for himself."

"The golden power.." Lloyd mumbled, "B-but that makes no sense! I lost the power and when Zane had defeated him the second time, the power went missing." Nya, Jay, Cole, and Zane, who were also there, decided to butt in. "Lloyd," Zane started, "Did it ever occur to you that the power must have gone to the rightful owner, to maintain the balance between the light and dark." He suggested his thoughts.

Lloyd held up his hands, studying them. "Does that mean that I-"

"No!" Ray called out. All eyes were turned to her, "The rest of us found out a while ago about the power." Jade raised an eyebrow, "We did?" she asked. Ray walked to her friend's side, "We never told you. We wanted to protect you."

"Protect me?" Jade asked, "Protect me from what?" Her voice was raised a bit, with hints or worry, fear, and anger in her tone. "It's you!" Ray exclaimed, "It's you." Jade threw her hands out, "What's' me? What is going on!" She cried.

"You have the golden power!"

"Guys! We need help!" Maya called. The other teens, including Ray jumped down to help, as Akita, Lloyd, and Jade stayed behind. The older ninja came to help them as well. Ray threw a couple fire balls to the warriors, as the others used their powers, and their techniques to help in the battle.

Soon, there were too many to hold on, "We are outnumbered!" Jay yelled to the crowd. "We have to retreat! Us adults will hold off the warriors, kids get the citizens out of here!" He called.

"Ray! Adrian! You go help Jade, Lloyd, And Akita!" A voice called, but Ray couldn't tell who it belonged to. She did as she was told. She jumped up to the family, "We have to get out." she warned.

"I have to go." Akita said, "But I will be back, be safe." She nodded to Lloyd, and hugged Jade. She then formed into a three-tailed wolf and jumped away. Jade was frozen from shock of all she had learned in the past minutes.

Adrian picked her up, bridal style, "Come on let's go" He said. They made their way out of the southern exit, where the citizens were freed. Soon the older ninja joined them , cole making rocks falling over the exit so that they were not followed.

Once they made it to the monastery, Adrian sat down Jade against the wall. She was still frozen. "Jade?" He asked. She started whispering to herself, "I-i.. Why.."

The adults whent to another room to discuss what was going to be their next move. "Jade, please say something." Ray begged. She looked up, "Why did you guys do this?" she asked, "You kept this a secret? Well I should have known!"

"We were trying to protect you!" Adrian yelled back.

"All we did was care!" Maya added in.

"Jade, it's going to be ok." Reese walked up to her, followed by Dianna, "Don't worry." she sighed.

"Don't worry?" Jade asked, "I'm mad!"

"Don't be mad!" Kirby begged, "Please Jade." Axel added in.

"I have every reason to be mad! You guys kept my power a secret from me!" she pointed to herself.

"Like I said we were protecting you!" Adrain yelled. "We care for you! We love you Jade! I love you!"

The area went silent. Ray looked from her cousin to her friend. Her heart was beating so fast and loud, that she was scared if anyone were to say anything else, she would not have heard.

Jade then got to her feet. She gazed at her friends. She then looked away, "I'm going home." she mumbled.

And with that, she left.